Plot: Through the eyes of Halina, a little gypsy girl, we follow a day in the life of three characters. As the story unfolds, the paths of these individuals are fated to cross in unpredictable ways and each decision they make will prove critical to their destinies.

Plot: An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by a the "secretaries of Juliet" -- and she goes on a quest to find the lovers referenced in the letter.

Keywords: american-abroad, balcony, business-trip, cemetery, character-name-in-title, chick-flick, englishman-abroad, englishwoman-abroad, female-protagonist, female-writerGenres: Comedy,
Drama,
Romance,
Taglines: What if you had a second chance to find true love? The greatest love story ever told... is your own

Quotes:

Victor: It's not a mushroom, okay. It's a truffle.

Sophie: So no "Lake Garda" today?::Victor: Well, "Lake Garda"'s been there for five hundred thousand years.

Sophie: [drily] I'm sorry, I didn't know love had an expiration date.

Claire: Charlie doesn't approve, which makes it all the more fun.

Charlie: [trying to convince Claire to leave] It's been a long day.::Claire: All right, darling, have a nice sleep.

Charlie: [as Sophie interrupts yet again] Oh-*here she comes!*

Sophie: I think it's a story worth telling.

Sophie: That's so romantic.::Charlie: What's so romantic about eating in the dirt?

Plot: Jeanne a writer, married, with two children - starts to see unsettling changes in her home. Her body is beginning to change. No one around her seems to notice. Her family dismisses these fears as the result of the stress of having to finish her next book, but Jeanne realizes that something far deeper, far more disturbing is taking place. A photograph at her mother's house sends her in search of a woman in Italy. Here, transformed into another woman, RosaMaria, she will discover the strange secret of her true identity.

Plot: At the North Pole there's isn't just one Santa Claus, but hundreds of them, each one responsible for a small area of the world.. and for the goodness of its inhabitants. The levels of goodness are dangerously low in Northern Italy, so the general assembly rules that Ezechiele must deal with the worst case on his territory, Mr. Achille Malerba, the man thought to be the reason for this downward plunge of the goodness "index". Ezechiele MUST make him a good man by midnight on Xmas eve, or he'll lose his job and be sent to make toys with the elves (who are very malevolent and nasty). Ezechiele appears to Mr. Malerba, a very rich industrialist (mayonaise) who callously refuses to understand the gravity - and reality - of his situation... Santa will use all his magic to try and make him understand, causing him to lose everything he has, but also helping him redeem himself through the relationship he develops with a former employee he had fired, and her fatherless 6 year old son.

Plot: At a farmhouse, a large family cooks mountains of food for the next day's engagement party for Silvia and her city fiancé, Angelo. Her parents feud about infidelity; an aging salesman who rents a cottage from them arrives with a young French woman; in Bologna, Angelo's mother frets that her son is marrying beneath him; his sisters are less critical. Early the next morning, the four of them go by train to the farmhouse, joined by Angelo's married, unpregnant sister. The day-long dinner is riotous, couples display affection and impatience, children chase angels. Angelo's family stays the night, and his sister Linda has a visitor. A silver elephant makes the perfect gift.

Plot: Antonio is a jolly and precise guy working for an auto factory in northern Italy. He decides to take his wife and two daughters on vacation to Sicily, so that they can finally see his hometown and meet his family. He's excited to show them around and dispel many of their negative stereotypes about Sicilians. He even dispels stereotypes about the mafia, saying that being a mafioso as a teen amounted to just being a messenger boy. But as Antonio reconnects with his past in Sicily, he finds out that there are more sides to being a Sicilian than he remembers.

Quotes:

Marta: [seeing a dead person in a bed surrounded by people eating] Look!::Antonio Badalamenti: It's nothing. A man died. It's an old custom. His friends are throwing a party for him.::Antonio Badalamenti: [to one of the mourners with a plate of food] Cumbari. How'd he die?::Man at wake: [matter-of-factly] Two bullets.::Antonio Badalamenti: [with urgency to the driver] Right. Let's go!

Don Vincenzo: The lies of a woman when softened by grace and courtesy are always welcome.

Antonio Badalamenti: Why do you say Sicily's uncivilized? It's very civilized and we have to live up to that.::Nino's father: No, we have to act like men - and that snake was right - you are a woman!::Antonio Badalamenti: No, Papa! Please don't say that!::Nino's father: [contemptuously] Fuck off!

Marta: Your mother hasn't said a word to me since we arrived. She stares at me as if I was some kind of exotic animal.

Don Liborio: [passing a street vendor] Now, a nice cap for the gentleman. What color do you want... black or checked?::Antonio Badalamenti: Black.::Don Liborio: Want to try it on? [Nino looks at himself in a mirror.] Now you're really one of us.

Lagosi: Thinking fully dressed or half naked is still thinking.

Don Calogero: The only way to go back is to go forward. It's stupid to be scared.

Antonio Badalamenti: [looking ahead on the ferry] Look over there! [enthusiastically] Sicily! Island of the sun and Cyclops! The inspiration to all the poets! [noticing his wife's lack of enthusiasm] What's the matter, Marta?::Marta: [wistfully] Nothing. I was just watching Italy fade away.

Antonio Badalamenti: I may live in Milan, but I'm still Sicilian.

Antonio Badalamenti: Remember when I said there were four hares. I bagged two of them. But if I'd had a Winch... a Winchester, I'd have bagged them all.

The Hills Of Kerry

Oh the palm trees wave on high all along that fertile shoreAdieu, you Hills of Kerry, I never will see you moreOh, why did I leave my home, And why did I cross the sea?And leave the small birds singing around you sweet TraleeThe noble and the brave have departed from your shoreThey´ve gone, they've gone to fight the war's, where the mighty cannons roarWill they ever again return To see old Ireland freeAnd hear the small birds singing, around you sweet TraleeWill I ever see the shamrock, that sprig so fine and grandOr hear the curlew flying high O'er lowly Banna StrandAs I stand on this foreign shore And think on what might beWill I ever more return again, to see you sweet TraleeNo more I'll see the sunbeams on that precious harvest mornOr hear our reaper singing in a field of golden cornThere´s an end to every woe and a cure for every painBut the laughing eye's of my darling girl, I never will see againOh the palm trees wave on high all along that fertile shoreAdieu, you Hills of Kerry, I never will see you moreOh, why did I leave my home, And why did I cross the sea?And leave the small birds singing, around you sweet Tralee

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